Abstract This paper is based on a case study of the European space industry as it organized in postcolonial setting French Guiana. It brings state back into political corporate social responsibility (CSR) by showing how government shapes interactions between business and local communities, more specifically around CSR issues. The opens new research avenues making two significant contributions. ...

This paper explores 40 years of data on R&D partnerships. These R&D partnerships are examples of inter-firm collaboration or strategic partnering, a topic that has recently attracted attention in both the academic literature and the popular press. The paper presents an analysis of some basic historical trends and sectoral patterns in R&D partnering since 1960. It also provides an overview of so...

Evaluations of private sector development programmes look at what changed to the workings system, and whether these changes are scalable, resilient, sustainable. We present an evaluation lens that primarily qualifies systemic nature food provisioning in markets. It converts theoretical frameworks into ‘antennae’ receptive early signs effects inclusive agribusiness fosters nutrition security. Th...

This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different interagent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising larger parts of the problem. Hence higher-level subpopulations search a larger search space with a lower resolution whilst lower-level subpopulations search a sma...

This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different interagent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising larger parts of the problem. Hence higher-level subpopulations search a larger search space with a lower resolution whilst lower-level subpopulations search a sma...